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Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion

“What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities wanting to assert that biology plays no role at all, apparently unaware of the scientific evidence to the contrary”

Stills Play Seems Humanity Social Differences Roles Worry Evidence Gender Contrary Debate Biology Nurture Social Science Scientific Evidence Gender Differences Nature Vs Nurture

Author:Simon Baron-Cohen

“Who is Barack Obama? Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the Planet Earth. Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president. If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it's possible that I'm a little too awesome.”

Ifs Thinking Knows May Littles Would Be Running Earth Father Names President Born Heard Middle Humility Planets Weakness Contrary Barack Rumor Planet Earth Save The Planet Krypton

Author:Barack Obama

“In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.”

Humans Doe Order Conditions Stupid Contrary Acknowledge Vacation Hunting Human Condition Hunters Hunts Misunderstood Hunted

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics is experienced in the truth of life, and it then appears as the only proposition of salvation which one can address to men.”

Men Doe Reader Offers Ethics Salvation Contrary Abstract Existentialism Addresses Truth Of Life Propositions Consolation Propose Evasion

Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“To a crazy ship, all winds are contrary.”

Crazy Wind Contrary Ships

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.”

Thinking Knows Men Should Trying Wells Use Education Ignorance Waste Infinite Contrary Treasure Ruins Mask Cherish Echoes Leafs Fragments Dictionary Toss

Author:Paul Valery

“Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.”

Ifs Way States Problem Reality Political Certain Courses Term Justice Information Theory News Lays Contrary Officials Reports Incomplete Omission Totalitarian State Sketchy

Author:Konrad Zuse

“This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.”

Economy Assuming Refuse Contrary Budgets Reduction Revision

Author:Laurent Fabius

“Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.”

Littles Country Opinion Scene Constant Contrary Hills Landscape Flats Pool Rolling Eastern Handsome Imaginative Crowded Iowa Creeks Timber Small Changes Catfish Rolling Hills

Author:Paul Engle

“The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are ...purveyors who label their 'iso-amygdalin' products 'amygdalin' contrary to all of the recognized specs...For commercial or political purposes, they certainly cannot justify such a fallacy...This scientific heresy and commercial fraud...(is) tremendously reducing the effectiveness of amygdalin therapy. ...To mislabel iso-amygdalin as amygdalin is scientifically, medically, and morally indefensible.”

Age Form Political Purpose Causes Dark Products Medical Contrary Labels Therapy Justify Fraud Variation Procedures Effectiveness Reducing Heresy Dark Ages Molecules Fallacy Vitamins Specs

Author:Ernst T. Krebs

“We are asked now seriously to accept that in the last few years-contrary to all history, contrary to all intelligence-Saddam decided unilaterally to destroy those weapons. I say that such a claim is palpably absurd.”

Years Lasts Accepting Weapons Decided Claims Iraq Contrary Absurd Saddam

Author:Tony Blair

“We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.”

Should Changed Israel Contrary Permanent Territory Establishment Conventions Settlement Geneva Geneva Convention Israeli Settlements

Book:Jimmy Carter

Source: Jimmy Carter

“An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought. It is not an accident of history. On the contrary, the church is God's new community.”

Knows Persons Christian Lying Purpose Community Church Divine Eternal Accidents Contrary Testament New Testament Grotesque Anomalies Afterthought Purpose Of God

Book:The Living Church

Source: The Living Church

“When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or that it is destructive of good taste, even if those are his opinions only, he has not only the right, but also the obligation to do what he properly can to keep that book out of the hand of those whom he thinks might be injured by it.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Book Hands Might Community Opinion Taste Library Contrary Obligation Welfare Destructive Librarian Injured Good Taste

Author:Jesse Shera

“Not surprisingly, the federal judiciary nearly always rules in favor of the federal government. Judicial review, contrary to the assurances of its advocates, has hardly restrained Congress at all. Instead it has progressively stripped the states of their traditional powers, while allowing federal power to grow unchecked.”

States Government Grows Congress Contrary Favors Traditional Allowing Reviews Federal Government Assurance Judicial Judiciary Judicial Review

Author:Joseph Sobran

“The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.”

Language Genius Unity Simplicity Contrary Clarity Latin Restraint French Language

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)

“I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.”

Thinking Feels Problem Film Actors Opinion Watches Normal Comfortable Contrary Movie Spectators Narcissistic

Author:Omar Sharif

“The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.”

Ifs Humans Use Technology Rights Essentials Human Rights Contrary Aliens Scholarship

Author:John Charles Polanyi

“Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.”

Action Safe Comfortable Contrary Reputation Refuge Inaction

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

“Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh, for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”

Spirit Walks Contrary Flesh Lust Galatians

Book:Christian Experience as Displayed in the Life and Writings of Saint Paul .. 4th Ed. With the Author's Final Corrections

Source: Christian Experience as Displayed in the Life and Writings of Saint Paul .. 4th Ed. With the Author's Final Corrections

“So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.”

Ifs Men Firsts Force Religious Liberty Conscience Negative Contrary Goods Umpires Magistrates

Book:An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines

Source: An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines

“Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.”

Knows Men Wells Pain Joy Night Pleasure Grief Mistake Brain Tears Inspire Health Ought Habit Sorrow Anxiety Laughter Mad Contrary Arise Dread Absent Sleeplessness Delirious Absent Mindedness

Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates

“The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.”

Thinking Evil Liberty Advantage Contrary Likes Propaganda Rejoice Publishing Hindrance Fountainhead

Book:A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.”

Today Values My Own Virtue Worst Particular Contrary Granted Fondness

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639

“Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them, I spoiled everything; on the contrary, when I praised them for their resignation and sympathized with them in their sufferings; when I told them they were fortunate to have their purgatory in this world, when I kissed their chains, showed compassion for their distress, and expressed sorrow for their misfortune, it was then that they listened to me, gave glory to God, and opened themselves to salvation.”

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

“[I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking of advice, we must reject and consider as a temptation whatever is suggested to the contrary.”

Has Beens Matter Faith Prayer Advice Decided Saint Seeking Contrary Temptation Rejects Maxims Presence Of God

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it, especially those who have given themselves to God; his own Son even passed through this trial. But if it is necessary for everyone, it is also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good, as you do.”

Ifs Men Would Be Life Is Faith Given Wonder Grace Son Source All Things Contrary Trials Temptation Merit Something New Grants Tempted

Author:Vincent de Paul

“Ultimately, Monsieur, we must go to God per infamiam et bonam famam [whether spoken of well or ill], and His Divine Goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt. I am sure you have borne patiently the embarrassment you experienced because of what has happened. If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is a solid good, when it is accepted in the right way. I hope that great good will come to us from this humiliation.”

Ifs World Way Wells Faith Happened Divine Please Goodness Glory Blame Ill Contrary Accepted Smoke Encounters Contempt Right Way Humiliation Good Will Embarrassment Merciful

Author:Vincent de Paul

“It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes. And, at the opening and closing of each mission, we get their blessing in a spirit of dependence.”

People Wisdom Past Spirit Wish Pleasure Blessing Missions Contrary Opening Dependence Pastor Maxims Closing

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)

“Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.”

Matter Wisdom Decision Clear Advice Importance Contrary Bad Things

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

“I have heard that M. Guesdon is dictating lessons to his seminarians. This is contrary to the custom of the Company and a somewhat ineffective way of teaching, since the students rely on their notes and do not exercise either their judgment or their memory, In this way, their minds remain empty while they pile up papers which they will perhaps never look at again.”

Way Mind Looks Wisdom Memories Company Heard Teaching Students Exercise Lessons Paper Judgment Empty Notes Contrary Rely Customs Papers Dictating

Author:Vincent de Paul

“Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them.”

Light Christian Remember Sin Conscious Faults Contrary Cures Perceive Wicked Consolation Discouraged Brighter

Author:Francois Fenelon

“The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.”

Men Way Soul Light Spiritual Christ Conscience Crosses Contrary Gods Will Inward Submission Inclination Quaker Light Of Christ

Book:No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, and that the Denial of Self, and Daily Bearing of Christ's Cross, is the Alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God : to which are Added, the Living and Dying Testimonies of Many Persons of Fame and Learning, Both of Ancient and Modern Times, in Favour of this Treatise : in Two Parts

Source: No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, and that the Denial of Self, and Daily Bearing of Christ's Cross, is the Alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God : to which are Added, the Living and Dying Testimonies of Many Persons of Fame and Learning, Both of Ancient and Modern Times, in Favour of this Treatise : in Two Parts

“Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.”